Robert Kirkman Confirms Invincible's Biggest Fight Is On The Way

Wait ... so the space battle with Thragg and the Viltrumites was not the biggest fight waiting in the Invincible franchise? Well, according to creator Robert Kirkman, not so much, because he has something up his sleeve he believes will tie up some loose ends for the series, and in the usual bloody fashion.

Leave it to Kirkman, who is also on record as calling out DC Comics and Marvel Comics for being "afraid" to move on from characters like Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, to try what he feels is something rarely done nowadays: to use the Invincible comics as a means of filling gaps in the Prime Video streaming series.

That means answering a massive question in the upcoming Invincible Universe: Battle Beast series from Image Comics that was never addressed in the most recent highly-rated season of Invincible on Prime Video, and that's how in the hell did Battle Beast get locked in a Viltrumite prison in the first place — where he met Alan the Alien and Omni-Man just ahead of the infamous prison break.

How Did Battle Beast Get Imprisoned in Invincible?

“A big part of the series is Battle Beast fighting Conquest, which never happened before," Kirkman told Popverse. "When I got into figuring out what this series was, you don’t see Battle Beast – he’s introduced in Issue 19, and he doesn’t show up again until Issue 55. And it’s so funny that people didn’t ask questions about this when we were launching the book, but like, the main question I wanted to answer with the series is how does he get into a Viltrumite prison.”

Kirkman continued: “If he’s going to get into a Viltrumite prison, he’s going to have to encounter some Viltrumites. And the timing worked out great in that this could have been Conquest’s mission before he was sent to Earth. And, so, it all works out really well.

"Some of the things that he says in the fight with Mark in the original where it’s like, ‘I’m usually sent to do this, and I usually have these parameters, now I’m being told to cut loose.’"

Battle Beast's Role in Season 5 of Invincible Is ...

Battle Beast played a significant role in the events of Season 4, and that will only become more true in Season 5, depending on how Kirkman decides to adapt the series' timeline in relation to the Invincible comics.

"OK, so those parameters might apply to the [upcoming] Battle Beast fight in [Invincible Universe: Battle Beast]," he explained. There will be these cool things where, when you read these issues of Battle Beast, you’ll be able to go back and read Invincible and be like, oh my god, that totally lines up. That’s neat.

"It takes a lot to open that back up, because we’ve done these crazy escalating fights and everything landed really cool," continued Kirkman. "To come back and do Battle Beast, we have to be 100% aware that every single action sequence and fight that happens in Battle Beast is going to be compared to the best fights in Invincible."

What is very clear is that while Battle Beast held his own against Thragg's faction of Viltrumites in the series, audiences don't know yet what he's fully capable of. Maybe seeing him lock horns with the overpowered and guttingly ruthless Conquest will answer that question in his empassioned search for a glorious death.